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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
Relating to Postage between China and the United States.
A POSTAL CONVENTION has been concluded between Her Majesty's Govern- ment and the United States of America, under which it is agreed that the SEA POSTAGE ON LETTERS transmitted between the two Countries shall, in future, be fixed at eightpence the Half Ounce, whether conveyed by British or United States' Packets, and that such postage shall belong to the country by which the packet conveying the letters is furnished.
By this convention it is further agreed, that letters from British colonies and possessions addressed to the United States, passing in transit through the United Kindom, shall be delivered to the United States post-office free of all British Postage, whether packet or inland; and that in like manner, letters posted in the United States, addressed to British Colonies and possessions, and intended to pass in transit through the United Kingdom, shall be delivered to the British post-office free of all United States postage, whether packet or inland. All letters posted at this office, intended to be forwarded through the United Kingdom to any part of the United States by British Packet, will be subjected to a postage of one shilling and eightpence the half ounce, instead of two shillings as heretofore; and upon such letters as may be intended to be con- veyed between the United Kingdom and the United States by packets belong- ing to the United States, the rate will be one shilling only, the half ounce (being the present charge from Hongkong to Great Britain), as the packet postage from England to the United States, as well as the United States inland rate, will be collected in the United States.
NEWSPAPERS addressed to, and received from, the United States, passing in transit through the United Kingdom, whether conveyed by British or by United States packets, are to be charged with a British rate of one penay each. For the present, all letters and newspapers addressed to the United States, will be forwarded from England by British packets, unless specially addressed "to be forwarded by United States packets."
It is to be understood, that the abovementioned rates apply only to letters and newspapers for the United States intended to be forwarded from Hong- kong vid Southampton; and that any correspondence vid Marseilles, will be liable to the rates of postage chargeable by that route from Hongkong to Great Britain in addition to the sea rate from the United Kingdom to the United States.
By order of his Lordship, the Post-master General, THOMAS HYLAND.
MASONIC LODGES.
There are three Masonic Lodges in China.
SAMUEL RAWSON, Provincial Grand Master.
ROYAL SUSSEX LODGE, No. 735, AT CANTON.
NORTHERN LODGE OF CHINA, AT SHANGHAI.
ZETLAND LODGE, AT HONGKONG.
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